September 18, 2014 / Front Page

As members of the Staples Fire Department gathered at the graveside of their fellow firefighter Tim Ringler Sept. 15, the voice of Dispatcher Sarah Booker came over their pagers: “Todd County Dispatch to Staples Fire Department. More...

Having only been recently introduced to Staples in the past year, I had not yet experienced its town celebration of Railroad Days. Over the years I have attended quite a few other town fests; some good, some not so much. More...

From Staples Railroad Days until the first week of school, over fifty students in grades 2-12 submitted a design for this year’s homecoming button. The student council took a vote and decided junior Sydney Martin had the best design. More...

Doris Ev- elyn Macheel, 87, of Motley, died Sept. 10, 2014 at the Riverside As- sisted Living in Pillager. Funeral services were held Sept. 13 at the First Lutheran Church in Pil- lager. Burial was in the Wi ldwood Cemetery in Pillager. More...

Freda M. Ackerson, 79, of Pillager, died Sept. 9, 2014 at St. Cloud Hospital in St. Cloud. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m., Saturday, Sept. 20 at the First Lutheran Church in Pillager, with Pastor Hector Merced officiating. More...

The City of Staples is planning to take $50,000 out of their budget that was scheduled to go toward a Staples Community Center rehabilitation project. City Administrator Nate Mathews told the city council at their Sept. More...

After three and a half hours of work on Sept. 15, Wadena County Commissioners were able to identify about $330,000 that could be cut from the budgets for 2015 proposed by department heads in August. More...

Citizens of Staples can help disaster response teams by taking one simple action, putting house numbers on their homes. That was one of the takaways that City Administrator Nate Mathews presented the city council when reviewing the cleanup afte More...

Throughout this year, Tim Rice, President and CEO of Lakewood Health System (LHS), has published a series of articles explaining healthcare reform and its effect on how our local hospital system works. More...

Four September birthdays were celebrated at the monthly birthday party held in the Senior Citizen’s Room at the Staples Community Center on Sept. 9. They were: LaVonne Selleck, Douglas Grossman, Lois Moe and Charles Crews. More...

Bette Pruitt found several old photos in a house located at 311 4th St. SW in Staples, which has since burned down. The only identification on the six photos was on the above photo taken in front of a car. More...